3.5
Asleep
By Banana Yoshimoto & Michael EmmerichPublisher Description
Banana Yoshimoto’s novels have established her as one of Japan’s finest and most popular writers, and an acclaimed and best-selling literary star all over the world. Now she delivers three novellas that develop her sophisticated, resonant, and artfully simple vision, in Asleep, a book that is already an international best-seller and may be her most charming since Kitchen.
Banana Yoshimoto has a nuanced and magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting new book from one of the best writers of contemporary international fiction.
Banana Yoshimoto has a nuanced and magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting new book from one of the best writers of contemporary international fiction.
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“Reading it feels like stepping into a dream, ethereal and fleeting, yet shadowed by the quiet pain of loss. Compared to Kitchen, Asleep feels less gripping due to its longing theme compared to the vibrancy felt in Kitchen.”
Beautifully writtenEasy to read
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“This was a great collection of short stories.
Night and Night's Travelers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love Songs ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Asleep ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”
Likable charactersBeautifully writtenMagical setting
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